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Son Rise is the extraordinary journal of Barry and Suzi Kaufman's successful effort to rech their "unreachable" child-a beautiful boy who sometimes seemed deaf and blind, sho sat staring silently for hours, rocking endlessly. Experts offered ittle hope, and the parents decided they must act on their own-alone. . . Against all professional advic... more »e and unknow odds, two people refuse to stop hoping, or to stop loving, or to stop trying; and the record of their autistic son's intensive journey from a lifeless totally withdrawn child into an active, affectionate, loving and highly verbal little boy is both astonishing and unique.« less